By Barbara Fister. … in Virginia, and all over the country.
Every year since 1982, the American Library Association, publishers, booksellers, and allied organizations like PEN America have dedicated a week in September to highlight the importance of the freedom to read. This is Banned Books Week. More...
By Barbara Fister. If you want to get my goat, or, I daresay, the goat of any librarian, make a gratuitous reference to shushing. The finger held to the lips, the aggressive whisper, the frown at a pin’s drop. We don’t do these things, but it’s a stereotype that is endlessly used in article titles and commercials, and it’s annoying. More...
By Joshua Kim. Inside Higher Ed is a community where we attempt, at least sometimes, to make sense of higher ed. Why else would we spend time on the site? There are far more absorbing activities we could be engaging in than debating the university. For sheer entertainment value, we could do worse than devoting our precious waking hours to watching TV. More...
By Joshua Kim. How might an OPM built on the principles and values of critical digital pedagogy (CDP) operate. More...
By Joshua Kim. Most online and blended course teams are small. They have a professor and an instructional designer. Most courses don’t even have that, with the professor on her own to design, deliver, and evaluate the course. But in most online programs, instructional designers collaborate with faculty. More...
By Joshua Kim. At IHE, we tend to talk about online learning from the perspective of schools and professors and companies and programs. Seldom do we hear from our students and our potential students. More...
By Joshua Kim. Connecting the origins of how we now eat to the future of how we might learn. More...
By Joshua Kim. There are two types of people who think about the future of higher ed, and two types of people who think about the future of food.
There are the Wizards. And there are the Prophets. More...
By Joshua Kim. Viewing Trump.
At the end of every book review I write, I ask you to answer a question: "What are you reading?". More...
By Joshua Kim. Far too often, the stories we tell each other about higher ed are either dismal (demographic drop-offs, cost disease, adjunctification, public disinvestment, etc. etc.) or rapturous (innovation, experimentation, digital, etc.). More...
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